A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.